Bicycle-saddle



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Patented Sept. 2,9, 1896.`

No. 568,626. Y

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFicE.

GEORGE L. PIERCE AND .IOSEPII E. PARKS, OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,626, dated September 29, 1896.

Application filed March ll, 1.896.

To all whom t may concern: y

Be it known that we, GEORGE L. PIERCE and JOSEPH E. PARKS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bicycle-Saddles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to construct a bicycle-saddle, or a saddle for similar uses, which will not only be a Ventilating-saddle, but which will likewise automatically accom'- modate itself to the necessary movements of the rider, the saddle being so constructed that the portions of the body brought in contact with the saddle will be subjected to a minimum of strain, and whereby, also, the said parts will be in a great measure rested during the operation of riding, and whereby no prejudicial action will take place to the injury of the aforesaid parts during the aforesaid operation.

Thej invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the improved saddle. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken centrally through the same and practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a Vertical central and longitudinal section through the improved saddle, in which is shown a slight modication in the formation of the pommel-supportin g spring. Fig. 4isa transverse section taken practically on the lines 4 4 of Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken substantially on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

In carrying out the invention the cantle 10 of the saddle preferably consists of a suitablyarched plate or bar, and the extremities of the said cantle bar or plate are connected by a seniielliptical spring 11, bowed in a down-l wardly direction, and the said spring is provided with longitudinal slots 12 near its extremities, through which bolts 13 or their equivalents are passed, the said bolts likewise extending through the cantle-section of the saddle, so that the aforesaid cantle-section may have end movement upon the spring 1l or the spring have end movement on the cantle.

The pommel 14 of t-he saddle comprises two horns, which are tubular and are preferably elliptical or circular in cross-section, as occasion may demand, the aforesaid pommelhorns being made from the materialemployed for the covering A of the saddle, the said material being preferably leather, although any other suitable material may be substituted, and the aforesaid cover A is carried rearward from the pommel-horns over the cantle of the saddle, being secured thereto in any -suitable or approved manner.

The main supporting-spring B of the saddle-body consists, preferably, of spring-wire bent upon itself toiform an eye 15, which is brought in engagement with the under central portion of the cantle and is adjustably attached thereto by a bolt 16 or an equivalent device. The members of the spring B are made to diverge from the eye 15, forming supporting-arms 17, extending one in direction of each of the pommel-horns and entering the same.

The forward portions of the spring B, or those portions which enter the pommel-horns, comprise, preferably, an upper and a lower member aand d', produced by bending the material of the spring at each member upon itself, the upper portion o being in engagement with the upper portion of a pommel-horn and the lower portion d' being carried rearward preferably above the semielliptical spring 11, and each return portion of the bow-spring B is threaded and passed through the eye of an eyebolt 19, located in the seniielliptical spring, which may be termed a saddle-post spring, and the said body-spring B may be placed under more or less tension through the medium of lock-nuts 2O and 21, engaging, respectively, with the front and rear edges of the saddlepost spring, as is shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and a further adjustment of the body-spring B may be made where the said spring connects with the cantle of the saddle.

In Figs. 3 and 5 we have illustrated a slight modification in the formation of the forwardly-extending portions of the body-spring B, in which, instead of the said portions of the springs entering the pommel-horns being re- IOO turned upon themselves to form an upper and a lower section, the return is so made as to form practically 1aterally-alining or parallel sections.

It is obvious that when a saddle is constructed as above set forth, the poinniels being circular or substantially so in cross-section and being supported by springarms, said pommel-sections will have both vertical and lateral movement sufficient to accommodate themselves to the seat of any rider, and that the space between the pommel-sections will serve not only as a means for ventilation, rendering the saddle cool, but will also serve to prevent irritation of any parts of the body that would naturally be brought over the central portion of the pomlnel of the saddle.

Having thus described'our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-` 1. Asaddle, eomprisin ga cantle, anda pommel formed of two spaced-apart horns approximately circular in cross-section, said horns being free to move vertically and laterally, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A saddle, the pommel of which consists of horns arranged in cross-sectional alinement and continuous in cross-section, and a supporting-spring connected with the cantle and having members extending within the pommcl-horns, as and for the purpose speciiied.

A saddle comprising a cantle, a spring connecting the extremities of the cantle, and a pommel con sistin g of two horns in substantially horizontal alinexnent, a body-spring adj ustably secured to the eantle and having members exten ding within the pommel-horns, the said body-spring being provided with return-sections from the pommel-horns, ad j ust ably connected with the spring connecting the extremities of the cantle7 as and for the purpose specified.

4c. In a bieyclesaddle, a cantle, a spring adj ustably attached to the cantle and extending in direction of its ends, the pommel of the saddle being in the shape of substantially horizontally alining horns continuons in cross-section, and a body-spring attached to the central portion of the cantle and provided with diverging members entering the po1nmel-horns, the said members having returnsections ad j ustably connected with the spring ad j ustably connected with the under portions of the said cantle, as and for the purpose specified.

5. A bicycle-saddle comprising a cantle, a semielliptieal spring slidably connected with the said cantle and extending in direction of the ends of the same, a covering attached to the said cantle, the said covering being divided and shaped to form pommel-horns in substantiallyhorizontal alin ement, said horns being continuous in cross-section, and a bodyspring connected with the cantle of the saddle at a point near its center and having diverging members carried into the saddlehorns, and means, substantially as shown, for adjusting the said. body-sprin g, as and for the purpose specified.

6. A saddle, comprising a cantle, a pommel formed of two spaced horns approximately circular in cross-section, and a spring adjustably secured to said cantle and supporting said horns, whereby said horns are free to move vertically and laterally, as and for the purpose set forth.

GERGE L. PIERCE. J OSEPII E. PARKS.

Witnesses:

HENRY V. RAYMOND, CHARLES E. BEnesTnoM. 

